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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 1989
Filed:
Apr. 07, 1987
Applicant:
Inventor:
Minoru Matsui, Nagoya, JP;
Assignee:
NGK Insulators, Ltd., Nagoya, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C04B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
501 98 ; 501 97 ; 264 65 ;
Abstract
A silicon nitride sintered bodies are disclosed, which mainly consist of Si.sub.3 N.sub.4 and contains at least an oxide of a rare earth element and ZrO.sub.2. In the silicon nitride sintered bodies, a J phase solid solution is present in an intergranular phase. The silicon nitride sintered bodies are produced by steps of raw material-formulating, molding and firing. The J phase solution is precipitated in the intergranular phase by temperature-descending step or a reheating step after the firing.